Shennongjia was located in the western border of Hubei Province and was a national nature reserve. This place had always been sparsely populated. Even today, when tourism was popular, very few people set foot in the heart of Shennongjia. The few descriptions left by the ancestors gave it a mysterious feeling.
This was the sacred land of plants and animals, and it was also a paradise for Chinese medicine practitioners. Rare medicinal herbs could be found everywhere. As long as you had the courage and ability to enter, it could surprise you. However, fewer and fewer people dared to enter because it had been too long since anyone had come out alive.
There was a relatively backward village around Shennongjia. There was no hospital or clinic here, only a Chinese medicine hall. The local villagers were grateful and respectful to the people in the Chinese medicine hall.
There were a total of three people in the Chinese Medical Hall, their grandfather, Ye Mo, and his two granddaughters, Ye Suqi and Ye Suyao.
Ye Mo placed one hand on the pulse of a middle-aged man's left hand and stroked his slightly long beard with the other. He nodded slightly and said,""Hmm, not bad. The inflammation has basically subsided. I'll change the medicine for you. Use two bowls of water to boil one bowl. Take it once in the morning and once in the evening.”
Ye Mo picked up the brush beside him and wrote down the prescription, his handwriting strong and forceful.
"Doctor Ye, thank you, thank you.”The middle-aged man took the prescription and thanked him profusely before going to the pharmacy.
It was already late, and there were very few people in the Chinese medicine hall. Ye Mo got up, picked up the books on the table and walked to the study. On the other side, Ye Suqi was tidying up the herbs in the pharmacy. She would pick up the herbs and sniff them from time to time to record the missing herbs. Ye Suyao was tidying up the herbs planted in the backyard. She moved the undried herbs back to the storage room and stored the dried herbs in the pharmacy.
"Old man, Little Seven, Little Yao, it's time to eat.”At this moment, a call came from the inner room of the Chinese Medical Hall. An old woman with a head full of silver hair walked out.
"Grandma, I've been hungry for a long time. Listen, my stomach is starting to rumble.”Ye Suyao put down the herbs and ran to Grandma's side. She held her hand and said coquettishly,"
"You little fatty, you've been shouting about wanting to eat since an hour ago. Be careful not to eat until you become a big fatty sooner or later.”Ye Suqi jotted down the notes while teasing her younger sister.
In fact, Su Yao was not fat. She was 165 centimeters tall and 50 kilograms, just right. She was well-proportioned and exquisite. However, compared to her sister, Su Qi, she was slightly plump. Who asked Su Qi to be 170 centimeters tall but only 45 kilograms? Her entire body was filled with bony beauty, which made Su Yao love and hate her.
Su Yao shook Grandma's hand, stomped her feet, and said coquettishly,""Grandma, look. Sister is bullying me again.”
"Alright, alright, go and call Grandpa for dinner.”Grandma smiled lovingly and patted Ye Suyao's hand.
"Humph!" Ye Suyao made a face at Suqi and ran to the study before she could react. At this moment, Su Qi had also finished her work. She walked to Grandma's side and helped her into the house. She said,""Grandma, let's go in and wait."
"Alright, alright." Grandma and Ye Suqi walked into the inner room.
Just as Su Qi helped Grandma sit down, Su Yao hopped in and ran directly to the dining table. She picked up a piece of rib and put it into her mouth. As she ate, she fanned her mouth and shouted,"It's so hot, so hot."
Seeing Su Yao like this, Su Qi was both angry and amused. "Have you washed your hands? It's so dirty. Where's Grandpa? Why isn't he here yet?”
As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Mo walked in and looked at his granddaughter bickering with a kind smile.
"Alright, let's eat." Ye Mo walked to the main seat and sat down.
The family ate happily. From time to time, there would be bursts of laughter and the sound of the two sisters arguing.
After dinner, Ye Mo was reading a medical book in the study, but he didn't turn a single page. He didn't know where his heart was. Grandma opened the door and walked in, waking Ye Mo up from his trance.
"Why are you here?" Ye Mo put down the book in his hand.
"Old man, in five days, it will be Little Seven and Little Yao's 18th birthday. Do you think that curse will really happen? "I can't sleep when I think of this. I..." Grandma's eyes slowly turned red and she couldn't continue.
"Sigh, let's leave it to fate." Ye Mo's eyes had lost their usual brightness and were now shrouded in a hazy mist. The heavy atmosphere lingered between them. The legendary curse was like a heavy stone weighing on their hearts, slowly falling.
Four days later, the day before Suqi and Suyao became adults, Ye Mo called them to the study.
"From now on, you only need to listen. No matter what questions you have, wait for Grandpa to finish before asking.”Ye Mo looked at them seriously, and his rarely seen serious expression scared the two sisters so much that they didn't even dare to breathe loudly.
Ye Mo started to explain slowly,"In the Qing Dynasty, there was a godly doctor called Ye Tianshi. His grandfather, Ye Zifan, was famous for his noble medical ethics and filial piety. His father, Ye Yangsheng, was named Chaocai. He was a skilled doctor and had read a lot. He liked to drink, compose poems, and collect ancient artifacts. However, he died before he was fifty. At that time, Ye Tianshi was only fourteen. Tianshi Ye studied medicine with his father when he was 12 years old. After his father passed away, he went into Jianghu. His family was poor and it was difficult to make a living, so he began to practice medicine and treat patients. At the same time, he took his father's disciple, Zhu, as his teacher and continued to study. He was extremely intelligent and could understand everything immediately. In addition, he was diligent and eager to learn. He humbly asked for advice. Later, he became the disciple of Doctor Liu, who was famous for his acupuncture skills, and learned acupuncture. Tianshi Ye had saved countless people when he was alive, and even Emperor Qianlong praised him. However, he was also envied by others and cursed to have no descendants. Later on, an old friend brought the method to save him, but it was still not completely eliminated. From then on, the Ye family passed down only one child for generations. However, the Ye family was prosperous at that time, and even if each person could only have one child, it did not hinder anything. "After he passed away, the Ye family was still huge and had been practicing medicine for generations. Later on, they saved people in the war and suffered countless casualties. In the end, only one bloodline remained, and we were the only remaining bloodline of the Ye family.
Speaking of this, you must be confused because you are twins and are living well now. However, you are not the first pair of twins. There have been a few pairs before, but they all lost their parents when they were young. Moreover, one of them will die for no reason before they reach adulthood. There has never been an exception.”At this point, Ye Mo suddenly stopped and looked at the slightly frowning Su Qi and the extremely uneasy Su Yao.
After a long time, Su Qi raised her head and looked at her grandfather with a hint of determination in her eyes. "Grandpa, can I choose?”
"Little Seven, don't act recklessly. It's useless. No one knows who the heavens have chosen. Fate is not something we can control.”Ye Mo shook his head. How could he not know what was on Su Qi's mind? However, fate was already decided and no one could do anything about it. "Tomorrow, none of you are allowed to go out. Stay at home, do you hear me?”
"Grandpa, is there really no other way?" Su Yao's trembling voice sounded.”
"Go back to your rooms. Some things will come eventually.”
Then, Ye Mo sat down slowly, looking a lot older than usual. Suqi pulled Suyao, who still wanted to say something, to the door. She turned around and looked at Ye Mo. Grandpa seemed to have really gotten old.
The next afternoon, Ye Mo made a house call. Before he left, he repeatedly reminded Suqi and Suyao not to go out, but how could the gears of fate stop because of a single instruction?
"Doctor Ye, Doctor Ye! Save…save my son, he's dying, Doctor Ye!”Aunt Wu carried her five-year-old son, Wu Yin, and rushed in.
Su Qi immediately went up to him." Quick, lie down in the room and let me take a look."”
Su Yao immediately followed.
"What happened?"
"He, he ran into Shennongjia. When Old Xu saw him, he, he was already unconscious on the ground.”Aunt Wu explained the situation in a simple manner while crying.
Ye Suqi looked at his eyes and mouth. She pulled up his pants and found that he had been bitten by a snake. "I was indeed bitten by a snake. Her cheeks were red, her lips were bright red, and her nails were red. Damn it, her body was slowly turning red. Xiao Yao, go and get someone to bring Grandpa back.”
"I've already gone. Here you go." Su Yao walked to the bed and handed over a set of silver needles, as well as a medicinal powder made of 30 grams of each herb, which was made from red, oldenlandia, seven leaves of a flower, groundsel grass, centipede, thistle, octagonal lotus, and three-leaf stinging grass.
"I'm afraid this ordinary medicine won't be able to save Xiao Yin.”
"You can't let your blood flow. The poison will invade your five internal organs soon.”Su Qi sprinkled a portion of the medicinal powder on Wu Yin's wounds and took the rest of it internally. She then quickly applied acupuncture on Wu Yin's acupuncture points. After about five minutes, she finally retracted her hand, her head covered in sweat.
"I've already slowed down his blood flow. Xiao Yao, pay attention to his condition. Remember, don't touch the silver needles on his body.”Su Qi said as she walked out and picked up the basket in the backyard.
"Sis, w-what are you doing? Are you going alone?”Su Yao stood in front of Su Qi, her voice trembling.
Su Qi looked at her younger sister who she grew up with and said helplessly,""Xiao Yao, you should know that ordinary herbs are useless when bitten by a blood snake. Unless you can get the blood serum of the blood snake, even if grandfather comes back, it will be useless.”
"But, you can't go out today. Grandpa told you repeatedly before he left. Besides, is it that easy to find a blood snake? Even if they found it, could they catch it? It's very fast, you can't catch up…Sis, don't go.”Su Yao pulled Su Qi and cried. She held her sister tightly and refused to let go. She was afraid that if she let go, her sister would disappear.
"Xiao Yao, sometimes fate is fate. Do you want me to watch Xiao Yin die? Or do you want Grandpa to look for him personally after he comes back?”
Suyao looked at Suqi and saw the determination in her eyes. Suyao held Ye Suqi's hand tightly and said firmly,""Alright, I'll go with you. Since it's destined, we'll face it together. The two of us are better than you alone.”
"Xiao Yao?" Su Qi looked at the face that was extremely similar to hers and smiled helplessly. "Alright, let's go together."
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